All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part ...of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it ...is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Part of the pain in leaving our children to go to work is that we miss them, wish we could be with them. We also hate to turn them... over to someone who is not identical to us, who will do things, at best, differently--at worst, in ways we don't believe are good for children. We are up against this whenever we share the care of our children with others--even grandparents or trusted and loved ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To be worst,The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,...Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.The lamentable change is from the best;The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worstOwes nothing to thy blasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

An honest appraisal of the respective pleasures derived from theater and cinema, at least as to what is less intellectual and more... direct about them, forces us to admit that the delight we experience at the end of a play has a more uplifting, a nobler, one might perhaps say a more moral, effect than the satisfaction which follows a good film. We seem to come away with a better conscience. In a certain sense it is as if for the man in the audience all theater is "Corneillian." From this point of view one could say that in the best films something is missing. It is as if a certain inevitable lowering of the voltage, some mysterious aesthetic short circuit, deprived us in the cinema of a certain tension which is a definite part of theater. No matter how slight this difference it undoubtedly exists, even between the worst charity production in the theater and the most brilliant of Olivier's film adaptations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »